High Performance Computational Server for Improved Neuroimaging Analysis

描述（由申请人提供）：此修订提案要求为匹兹堡大学MR研究中心购买计算服务器升级提供资金。 MR研究中心是一个有15年历史的机构资源，致力于为匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学的生物医学研究社区开发和提供最先进的MRI数据采集，重建和分析资源。 该设施过去一直用部门资金支助重大的计算机升级。 然而，鉴于目前的经济状况，在国家，资金用于资本设备采购已有限，急需升级为我们的计算服务器已被搁置。 之所以需要进行这种升级，是因为现有服务器提供的计算能力很快就被MRRC使用的几个图像重建和分析软件套件耗尽了。 MRRC支持100多个外部资助的项目（>80%来自联邦政府），这些项目需要越来越高的计算能力。 拟议的文书旨在满足今后4-5年的这一需要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised proposal requests funds for purchasing a computing server upgrade for the MR Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. The MR Research center is a 15-year-old institutional resource that has been committed to develop and provide state of the art resources for MRI data acquisition, reconstruction and analysis to the biomedical research community in the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon Universities. The facility has, in the past, continuously supported major computing upgrades from departmental funds. However, given the current economic conditions in the nation, funds for capital equipment purchasing have been limited and the much-needed upgrade for our compute server has been put on hold. This upgrade is needed because the computational power provided by the existing server has quickly been exhausted by several of the image reconstruction and analysis software suites in use at the MRRC. The MRRC supports more than 100 externally funded project (>80% from the federal government) that require an increasingly higher level of computational power. The proposed instrument is designed to meet this need for the next 4-5 years.